Janujee, Author at FISU Meditation

The Loving Will of God: Evolution is the Journey Back Home

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THE PERSONAL GOD IS ALL LOVE AND EXPRESSES ITS NATURE IN THE EVOLUTION When we say, “God is love,” we are not talking about that all-pervading, eternal essence or energy called the Impersonal God, for that remains just an energy. But that which expresses love is the totality of this universe. So, when we say God is love, we are talking of the Personal God. We are not talking about that Brahman or that always existent fine energy that does not have to go through cycles, that knows of no love. But the Personal God is the one who is all love. What do we mean by this love? The Personal God has the universal mind because He is the sum totality of the universe, and therefore, it is love. Through that universal mind, the love that He is or gives is not conditional, nor is it by volition. It is its nature, and it expresses its nature in the evolution, the development of the cycle. That is why right from the primal self, one progresses to the human stage through various kingdoms, and that very process is the love of God. That very process is the love of God, because it is forever taking you back home from where you have originated. And that is why we say, “God is love.” It is not a figure with a long beard sitting up there on a throne in Heaven, and says, “I love you, my son, I love you. Come unto me.” No. The process is love. THE PROCESS OF EVOLUTION IS THE LOVE AND THE WILL OF GOD The more we become aware of the process, the more aware we become of love, and then we, in turn, express that love because we are aware of the process. So, the entire existence is nothing else but a process and, in the process, we are forever proceeding to greater and greater awareness of what is going on in this motion. But we understand more of commotion than of motion. Motion is peaceful. Commotion is not. But we use motion to create commotion, and the small mind does that, and that is why we want to meditate to reach the highest superconscious level of the mind, where even the motion, though being motion, would be so still, like a highly spinning top, spinning so fast that it would seem very still to us. So, these are the things to understand; otherwise, it would just be a saying. Everybody says that “Love is God and God is love.” Just verbal words, words, words, and nothing understood. The love of God is the process, and the very process is God. Do you see how they tie up with each other? For even in this process, there is a system. No process can come about haphazardly, and because it cannot, we call it God’s will. That is the rule. We are involved in this process, which is God’s will. Therefore, we say that we are governed by God’s will, which is very accurate. It is very precise that we are involved in this process—we engaged in his love. ONLY THE EGO-SELF CAN HATE, AND THE HATRED STEMS FROM THE SUBJECT When there is love, it has to have its opposites, hate. Where does hate come from? In reality, there is no hate. There is no hate at all. It is the misinterpretation of love that is termed hate. As we all know, there is a very thin dividing line between love and hate. You can love someone very much now and later; it can turn to hate only due to misinterpretations by the little mind. So, hate is an idea. If God is love and God is the universe, where is there a place for hate? There is no hate. Hate is an idea because we only use the conscious mind, which is only a fraction of the mind, and the conscious mind, with its ego self, wants everything conducive to itself and says that “I am the center of the universe.” When it says I, I, I, it does not mean the real “I” but the ego “I” and the ego “I” is forever grasping, is forever trying to preserve itself in whatever way. By hook or by crook, it wants to maintain itself, and when things do not go its way, it changes the energy of love into hate and projects it onto others. And that is what the ego thinks: “I hate someone.” The ego self finds an object of hatred. But where does the hatred really stem from? It stems from the subject. EGO-SELF IS THE STUMBLING BLOCK, WHICH YOU CANNOT ANNIHILATE, BUT CLARIFY So, then I am the hate. The ego self is the hate, and that is why we lose sight of the true meaning of the will of God, and God is love. So, what do we do with the ego self, the stumbling block? People say annihilate it! I say do not, keep it. It is good. For without self-identity, which the ego self brings about, how can you know the universal identity, which is God, without knowing yourself? So, preserve the ego self, but refine the ego self. It would be foolish for a person to say, “I was Jack, I am not Jack anymore. Now I am the universe,” and then he runs around like a madman. Therefore, we have had mad men coming into this world and saying, “I am God.” You really are, but have you realised that yet? Have you realised that universal self? Have you encapsulated that universal God within yourself to say, “I am He.” No, and that is why people like Hitler are born to boost their ego. That which we must refine is made much, much grosser. So, we become stagnant. We actually go back, instead of going forward. WHEN THE SMALL SELF IS CLEANSED, THE HIGHER SELF COMES AUTOMATICALLY So, we, in our sense, preserving

Through the Intercessor: Not to Him, But Through Him

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TO KNOW THE WILL OF GOD, WE NEED AN INTERCESSOR We say that God’s will is always done, but how many of us can truly appreciate and understand God’s will? In the lives of the great Masters, like Jesus, Buddha, and Krishna, we have found that intercession is necessary. An interceder does not go and appeal on your behalf. The true meaning of this would be that he, having seen the knowledge of Divinity, conveys that knowledge to you; therefore, he who knows God’s will interprets that will to you. But your approach to him is always direct. There are certain theologies in the world, certain religions, for example, in the Bhagavad Gita, that would say that “No one goes to the Father except through me,” and Jesus said the same thing. This really means that he is not there as an advocate or a Barrister, going to appeal for you to Divinity. No. It means that you have to reach the stage of Christhood. You first have to become one, that is, a very high mortal being, an embodied being; you have to reach that stage of consciousness before you can get the stage of Divine consciousness. That is the greatest duty that all true Teachers of Divinity have performed. They lead you, and they have to be authoritative. You come to me. There is nothing wishy-washy about a great soul, a great being, He that has become one with God. He tells you with authority because he has experienced that. So when He says, “No one goes to the Father except through me,” it is very accurate. There have been many interpretations, and I can only offer you mine: that you must reach the consciousness of Christ to attain Divinity. So, we could call him the middleman. In daily life, if you go directly from the street to a wholesaler, they will not sell you their wares, their goods. He will tell you, “No, we supply the retailer, and you buy my goods through the retailer.” This has happened all along the ages. When we talk of God’s will, is it also His will to bring into being such an entity? It is his will. LET ME PUT YOU ON THE PATH TOWARDS DIVINITY, AND YOU WALK WITH YOUR OWN FEET What God are we talking about? Who knows God? How many have experienced God? It is said that out of ten million people on the path towards Divinity, perhaps ten might reach. I always say that I do not want to show you God, because that is a false promise, but I would say, “Let me put you on the path towards Divinity, and you walk with your own feet.” And if you are put on the right path, you will definitely reach your destination. We have some religions that would say, “Okay, you come to me and pay your dues, and I will take you to God.” Please shun them. For the faithful messenger of God or the true Incarnation that in physical form represents that which is Divine, is worth going to. You can call him the middleman, the interceder, or whatever title, but when a man has become one with God, then he truly could be the most outstanding representative or God incarnate walking on earth. These theories or theologies are not wrong. They are all true. They have a deep meaning. But most people, ninety-nine-point nine percent of the people, misinterpret these things. It is not to him but through him that you realise your own personal Divinity. You come from nowhere, and you are going nowhere. If that which we call Divinity is omnipresent, all-existent, eternal, and infinite, then you are that too. For the eternity of that which is Divine can never exist without you being eternal. THE REAL SELF IS BEYOND TIME, SPACE, AND CAUSATION AND THEREFORE ETERNAL We keep on saying “I get born and I die.” What gets born? What decays? And what dies? This little bubble. This little physical body. How important is it in the eternity of things? When we talk of eternity, time is measureless, which means in turn timeless, while man is bound by time because his emphasis is on the little body, the little mind, which is here today and not there tomorrow. And not there tomorrow, meaning, it is not here as well. For where is the difference between here and there? What is here, and what is there? We only say here and there because we know only of time and space. Time and space, and the causation of them, are, in reality, from the absolute viewpoint, non-existent. If I were to say “You are non-existent”, it would seem blasphemy. You say, “Look, I can feel and touch myself, and I can feel pain and pleasure, and I can walk, and I can communicate.” But who is saying that? The unreal you, which is transitory, is saying that, and anything transitory could be termed non-existent. But is the authentic Self, that is you, saying that? No, for the authentic Self is beyond time, beyond space, and nothing causes it. And that is why it is eternal. THE PERSONAL GOD IS THE TOTALITY OF THE UNIVERSE When we talk of God’s will, what will are we talking about? Because the supreme Divine, the supreme Divinity, has no will. But the Divinity man is talking about, or in other words, the Personal God, is the force which makes up the whole universe. That we call the Personal God. The Personal God exists. He is the total of the emanations of this universe, and when an Incarnation comes, that sum “l” of the universe takes on a body. But that sum “l” of the universe that takes on a body is still totally aware, experientially aware of that which is beyond the sum totality of the universe. So, we have the Personal God, which man needs. Because when you enter the realms of

A Journey Within: Awakening the Peace We Truly Are

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GET AWAY FROM DIS-EASE AND BE AT EASE WITHIN THE PEACE THAT WE REALLY ARE If you cannot find the Kingdom that is within yourself, then that means that you are not functioning in totality. You are functioning fragmentedly. Through spiritual practices, we transition from fragmentation to integration. We integrate the body, the mind, and the spirit. For they are not things apart from each other. It is a wholeness; it is a continuum, and only by knowing the continuum can you see the peace that is your inherent birthright. We are looking for the peace that is within ourselves. Dis-ease is the opposite of peace. So, let us get away from dis-ease and be at ease within the peace that we really are. It is so simple to lead the mind to that area, the Kingdom of Heaven within, where peace resides, and draw it out so that it can be infused into all our daily actions, thoughts, and way of life. MAN, KNOW THYSELF To find that peace, we have to penetrate ourselves, and by going there, by using the direct hotline, we can find that peace. But the trouble is, we do not want to dial the number, although the line is open. Through a methodical approach, individually prescribed spiritual practices, we reach that area, and then we start knowing ourselves in an integrated state, rather than a fragmented one. And when you know yourself in the integrated state, you will be living that beautiful injunction in the scriptures, which in every religion says, “Man, know thyself.” No religion says, “Man, know God.” It says Man, know thyself, and automatically you will know God. For it is said, “I and my Father are one,” and who said those words? Jesus, the man did not say those words. But Christ said those words, and Christ is that universal consciousness that is within you, too. He talked from the level of that consciousness. He did speak of that little frame of a body which was named Jesus. Consciousness is always present – just waiting for you to lead your limitedness to that which is unlimited. Why be like a fish swimming in the water and yet dying of thirst. That is? What we are doing. Do you think you are alive? You are dead. You think you are awake. No, you are asleep. WHEN YOU REACH THE GOAL, YOU WILL FIND THAT THE PATH AND THE GOAL ARE BUT ONE AND THE SAME Through spiritual practices, we find wakefulness, and by seeing that awakening, that wakefulness, you will say that the conceptions I had of bondage were but a dream. I was dreaming. I have been free all the time. I was free all the time, and now I know that that bondage was but a dream which is not the nature of myself. I am by nature free, and not by nature bound. It also means that by feeling yourself to be in bondage, you are not using your total potential, and that is why you are asleep. That is why you are dreaming and not fully awake to the beauty of life. How many times do you walk through your beautiful parks here or through the lovely trees in your city? How many times do you pass there and notice and listen to the beautiful symphony of the wind blowing through it? How many times do you see the blades of grass swaying there in a divine dance? How many times are you with your beloved and feel the very throbbing of her heart or his heart melting away into your heart and finding the rhythm of oneness? You do not. Because of fragmentation. An integrated person would see that, for there is nothing ugly in this world. Everything is filled with beauty. Therefore, we say, “Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.” We want to become the beholders of beauty, and all ugliness and all bondages to disappear. So, arise, awake, as Vivekananda would say. “Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached.” Oh, lead thou me on, kindly light, even if it is one step at a time. But you have to start – you have to start, and if you are in Sioux City, you cannot begin from Chicago. You start from Sioux City on that beautiful, joyous journey, and when you go along this path and reach the goal, you will find that the path and the goal are but one.You have come from nowhere and you are going nowhere, and then you experience that which I experience, the isness of life. Blake said something like “Eternity in an hour.” I say eternity is now here, in this very moment. It is just turning your attention. GOING BEYOND THE LAW OF OPPOSITES, ONLY THE JOY OF EXISTENCE IS LEFTJOY REQUIRES NO ANALYSES, JOY IS IN THE AREA OF EXPERIENCING The search in modern technology and in the world’s mind today is to go out, to find things outside themselves. It is to go outside themselves; the search is forever outside. You want to see some pleasure, so you go to the movies, you go to the nightclub, you go to the dances, you go to whatever entertainment there is. Why? To find pleasure. In other words, you are trying to escape from yourself into some kind of pleasure. But know this for sure, that if you have pleasure today, tomorrow there will be pain because you are fluctuating within the law of opposites. If there is a day, there must be a night. If there is heat, there must be cold. But there is this other area which goes beyond the law of opposites, which goes beyond the pain and pleasure, and that area is joy, absolute joy. Indefinable by the left hemisphere of your brain, which is analytical, but experienceable. So, joy requires no analysis; joy is a matter of experiencing. Analysis is the root of all problems.

Living Beyond Sin: Finding Purity Through Meditation

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WE COME HERE TO BETTER OURSELVES There is a law of nature which strives and strives for perfection. We have said earlier that the nature of man is bliss, and he wants to return home to bliss. Whatever the physical body feels, the mind feels more intensely. There is no way out for the mind but to follow the law of nature, and man has a choiceless choice. Man is forced, compelled, and coerced by his doings to return to live out those experiences. We come here to learn. We come here to evolve. We come here to better ourselves, and every experience is valid. Even a wrong experience, even a bad experience, in its finality, will bring one to certain realisations. I have done something wrong. That wrongness will produce in me one day the sense of what is right. I can only enjoy the sunshine if I experience rain. So, no experience is to be discarded. Even the experience of the sinner is not to be discarded. We say condemn the sin but not the sinner. The sinner, too, is on an onward march towards perfection to achieve his inherent right to become one with his Maker. So, it is a natural coercion, a natural force within the laws of nature that the person wants to experience so that he can better himself, always, constantly. THE SIN IS IDENTIFIED ONLY WITH THE BODY AND THE MIND As we have discussed before, man has three aspects: the body, the mind, and the Spirit. Having the eternal divine value, the Spirit will be untouched by that which we call sin. So, what we have left is the body and the mind, and only the body and the mind would be capable of doing an anti-social deed that could be termed sinful according to the interpretation and morality laid down by creeds. With our method of meditation, we are going beyond the limitations of body and mind and finding that unstained Spirit within us. By living in the Spirit, we become incapable of sinning. Meditation involves experiencing joy and living a good, Godly life. The sin is identified only with the body and mind. What could be sinful in one situation or culture might not be immoral in another. For example, monogamy is accepted in our culture, and polygamy would sound sinful to us, but there might be other countries where polygamy is a rule and not called sinful. These are superficial definitions of sin, but the more authentic meaning of misdeed would be the infringement of what we feel, not think, within ourselves to be correct. When we feel within ourselves that our actions are not accurate, that is sinful. The quality of sinfulness would be devolutionary and not evolutionary. It would be flowing against the current of nature and not with the current of nature. So, any action that is stagnating or blocks us from flowing with the current of nature can be regarded as sinful. In contrast, an action that is natural and within natural laws and can be substantiated, appreciated, and felt suitable will be evolutionary. EVERY ACTION WE DO MUST NECESSARILY BE DONE WITH SOME KIND OF THOUGHT So, the difference between the sinner and sin is nil because when we talk of sinners, we naturally speak of two aspects only: body and mind, and the forever pure Spirit has been excluded. I would say again that the purpose of meditation would be to find that Spirit within us that would regenerate, rejuvenate, repattern, and reorganise our thinking processes because outward action is the grosser interpretation of thought. Thought, too, is action, and every action we take must necessarily be done with some thought. So, action exists in the mind in a subtle form, and when that subtle form is expressed, it assumes a grosser form whereby the good deed or the lousy deed is known. … Gururaj Ananda Yogi: Satsang UK 1976 – 08

Christ Consciousness and Gurushakti: The Human Form of Divinity

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CHRIST CONSCIOUSNESS HAS TO ASSUME A HUMAN FORM Christ has never left us. The body of the historical Christ might have disintegrated into its original elements, but the Christ Consciousness is eternal, and it has never left us; it is always there. It had no beginning, and it had no end. Only that which begins does end, but that which has no beginning will not end. So that consciousness, that divinity is eternal, it is infinite, and it is forever there. There comes a time in the scheme of things when a more significant imbalance is caused in this world or in the solar system or instead in this universe, and that very consciousness embodies itself to bring about the balance again. This is not only a Christian concept but also a concept of the Hindu people, where Krishna, for example, says in the Gita, “From age to age I shall return to bring back the balance which is needed.” In the scheme of things, this world that we live in, the collective world, sets off a particular vibrational factor, and vibrations can be disturbed, as we would find in radio reception. The radio will be distorted if it is not correctly tuned in. So, when the vibrational factors of the existence of this world are disturbed, a magnetic pull forms. A certain auric magnetism is produced that demands the embodiment of that eternal consciousness. Therefore, from time to time, that consciousness will forever manifest physically to help humankind. The Christ Consciousness or the Krishna Consciousness is the same, and for man to appreciate that abstract value, it has to concretise itself. It assumes a human form because only by the human impulse can another human understand. Therefore, it becomes necessary to assume a human form. It will always happen as age after age goes by. This will always happen, but at specific points in time, when a more significant imbalance is created on this Earth, then that consciousness embodies itself in the form of man, flesh and blood to teach us and show us the way. Is it not said that “I am the way, and I am the life”? Yes, that is very, very true. GURUSHAKTI COULD BE TERMED THE LAW OF GRACE Gurushakti is a Sanskrit term that means a universal force, a universal power that, by its very nature, is evolutionary; it evolves. It could also be termed the Law of Grace, which forever exists in this universe. Through meditational practices, we invoke that Divine supreme power called Gurushakti. We invoke that, and to invoke that, it will be necessary to be in touch with our innermost self; to be in touch with our innermost self, we require a teacher. When the minor child goes to school, he has to be taught the A, B, C’s and how to read, and until he can read on his own, he needs a teacher. In our case, we need a spiritual teacher or a guru, and when the power within him is awakened, and the child can read on his own, then the child will not require the teacher. When a housewife goes shopping, she makes a list of what she wants to buy at the supermarket, but once she has bought what she needs, she no longer requires the list. So, she discards the list. In that way, teachers will need to teach you about Gurushakti. GURUSHAKTI IS THE BIRTHRIGHT OF EVERY PERSON A real guru is a person who can gather these universal forces and pass them on as a lending hand to help the person who is seeking self-integration. That is Gurushakti, and this is the birthright of every person because without Shakti or without that energy or power, no person could lift a hand, breathe, or do anything without that power within him. But human beings have been acting and living in our highly sophisticated, hectic age automatically. These powers are just taken for granted. People live automatically. But if these powers are under a certain kind of conscious control, one could gain the maximum benefit for one’s benefit all the time, all the time. … Gururaj Ananda Yogi: Satsang UK 1976 – 08

Beyond The Veil: The Soul’s Pilgrimage to the Divine Source

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IS THERE LIFE AFTER DEATH? I do not believe in life after death; I know life after death. There are three aspects, first, we start thinking, have faith, and then we know. If we sit in an air-conditioned room, we believe the fire is hot in the next room. We believe. But as we leave the door and go to the next room and experience some of the heat, that belief turns to faith because now we have experienced something. So, belief becomes faith. Then, when we jump into the fire and become one with the fire, we know what the fire is. So, belief leads to faith, and faith leads to knowingness. Every person has gone through a period of knowing an afterlife, generally known as death. Speaking, there is no death. No one dies. Even this physical body cannot die. What happens to it is that it disintegrates into its original elements. In other words, it is just transformed into different things. So, if even this physical body is indestructible, what about the eternal Spirit? For, there is everlasting life. The meaning taught to us by the Scriptures about everlasting life is that there is no death, and the basis of all fear is death or, in other words, fear of the unknown. Every situation in life is feared because of the unknown. A person is not happy in his work, not necessarily because of his work mates but because he feels inadequate, and fears he might get the sack. He has fears at home. He fears about his children’s health; they might be healthy now, but he fears, “Oh if they should fall ill, what am I going to do?” Or if his wife is going to start nagging the following day, what is he going to do? So, fears are mostly grounded on that which is unknown, and the basis of all these fears goes right back to the conception of death. RELATIVELY SPEAKING THAT WHICH IS BORN MUST DIE Relatively speaking what is born must die. Everything that is born has its period of living, it decays, and dies, but that is on the relative field. When we go deeper within ourselves, as in our meditational practices, we start realising there is no death; there is only life, everlasting life. When we say life, the other side of it would be death. There again, we come back to the law of opposites. You can call Divinity, God or Divine energy or whatever; if we call Him the Creator, then He is forever creating, and what does He forever create? He creates life. He does not make death. This is a metaphysical or philosophical understanding that life is eternal and can exist in a grosser or subtler form. We have found that the human mind is only known to us in ten per cent of its value. Ninety per cent of the mind being dormant must exist in a subtle state. Therefore, the grosser ten per cent of the conscious mind cannot know the subtle ninety per cent of the mind. So, if the body does not die, if the body is indestructible and disintegrates into its original elements, then the subtle body within ourselves, which is the mind, is indestructible too because the composition of the body and mind is the same. It is all matter, one in a grosser form, one in a subtler form. Speaking relatively, when this physical body is discarded, the subtle body, which we call the mind, will not be destroyed either. WHICHEVER IS MORE SUBTLE IS MORE POWERFUL Whichever is more subtle is more powerful. For example, if a minute atom can be split, it can blow up the whole of Liverpool. As we go to the subtler essence of things, the more powerful it becomes, and because the mind is of a far subtler essence than the body, it can last longer. It can last longer than the physical body. So, the mental body can still exist after the physical body has passed away. So, what happens when one exists in the subtle body? That is the question that you would like to have answered. The impressions and the existence in the subtle body are nothing different from the facts in the grosser body. But because the subtle body is more powerful, we experience all experiences more powerfully in the subtle body. The subtle body in that state of the hereafter has a chance to evaluate its entire life. It assesses, considers, and formulates if it should take another birth. This three score years and ten might seem a very long time to us, but in the scheme of eternity, it is not even a fraction. REINCARNATION CAN NOT BE INTELLECTUALISED, BUT IT CAN BE EXPERIENCED So, today’s life is a composition or the total of all the lives we might have lived before. Reincarnation is not something that can be intellectualised, but it can be experienced. Some people can go back to their subtle bodies and experience the lives that they have lived. This can come only on the experiential level. But certain intellectual inferences could point to previous existences. If anything had a prior existence, then it could have an existence hereafter. In this world, one child is born in very happy circumstances, while another is born in very adverse circumstances. If that Divine law, which we could call God, is just and unbiased, then why should God allow one to be born in happiness, while another in such total unhappiness? Certain hereditary factors are also at play, but of course, hereditary factors, being totally physical and mental, are very superficial. There is still something far beyond it. To return to our point, our lives today are the sum of past existences, and reincarnation can be experienced. There have been many instances in newspaper reports where a small child describes certain places and things and specific associations of previous lifetimes very, very accurately and this

Reincarnation, Memory, and Spiritual Progress: The Silent Journey of the Soul

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MAN’S GREATEST GIFT IS THE ABILITY TO FORGET In this modern world, when you say, “Believe this or believe that”, people do not believe because many structures seem to be based on disbelief. There was a time, say, two thousand years ago, during the time of Christ or before that, Buddha or Krishna, when injunctions were made: “Thou shalt and thou shalt not”, and they were taken in good faith and belief. But perhaps the mind of today is a bit more sophisticated and wants explanations; they want answers, scientific data, and logical explanations, and their belief could be led to faith and then to knowingness. You do not need to remember the lessons you have learnt; they become part and parcel of yourself and are already there. The greatest gift man has been given is the ability to forget; that is the greatest gift. Never mind past lives; even if you could remember every negative incident that happened to you in this life, you would end up in a lunatic asylum. The greatest gift man has been given is the ability to forget. It is not necessary to know past lives to progress in this life. If we want light in this room, we put on the switch. We do not need to analyse darkness. We just put on the switch, and we have the various meditation methods at our disposal. When you sit down to the meal your wife has cooked for you, you are interested in that moment, when you are eating the meal, how you are enjoying the meal and if the meal is palatable. You will not lose the pleasure of eating by dissecting or analysing what spices or herbs went into it. When you sit down to eat, you enjoy the meal. So, let us live this life in such a way that it could become very, very enjoyable and remarkable. That is the purpose. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BELIEVE I disagree with the philosopher Nietzsche and the law of perpetual reoccurrence. This life is never lived over again in the same pattern. It is always a different life. Because the life we live today is the total of all past lives, then there would be a difference in this life from past lives. What answer is there for all the experiences that we have gained. It is all the experiences, all the words, deeds and actions of past lives that have formulated this life. Although incorporating all past life experiences, this life is necessary and has to be a different life. As a different life, we have perhaps taken a step further on the ladder. We are on a different step and must progress and climb more until we reach the summit and the roof. And when we get to the top, we have a grand view of the whole universe, the entire cosmos. You do not have to believe. It is not a matter of belief; it is a matter of knowing. For your spiritual evolution to find happiness, you do not need to believe these things; they are unnecessary. Therefore, I said that the human mind can only infer these things because these previous existences are not to be appreciated intellectually. The finite mind can never know the infinity within the 90% dormant mind, and the 90% dormant mind or the totality of man’s mind is as vast as the entire universe. It does require some understanding. You cannot understand it by the mind. Something just clicks inside, telling you, “Ah, this is true.” THERE IS A PROGRESSIVE EVOLUTION GOING ON AND ON AND ON To believe in reincarnation, you must accept the law of Karma. You will have to consider evolution, the law of Karma and the law of reincarnation as a totality. Our existence today has not come about just as humans; humans accept the law of evolution. From the amoebic cell, man has progressed through the mineral kingdom, from there to the plant kingdom, to the animal kingdom, and then to the stage of man. There are millions and millions and billions and billions of atoms in the universe, and each atom is an entity of its own. Each atom contains a completeness on its own. If you can dissect and know the secrets of one atom, you will learn the whole workings of the universe. This has been said by science. It is not a question of more souls existing today than before but a question of more sub-human beings becoming human at this period of life. In proportion and ratio, there will be more self-realised people. That is the procedure all the time. So, there is a progressive evolution going on and on and on. MAN OF TODAY IS NO BETTER THAN MAN THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO I would not say that humanity has made any progress. The people who live today are not necessarily better than those who lived during Christ’s time. Technological advancement is not necessarily spiritual evolution. Sometimes, technological advancement can lead one to devolution rather than evolution. Look at the evil of the technological progress in creating the hydrogen bomb, which, according to several nuclear experts, has the potential to be 1,000 times more powerful than an atomic bomb, which was so destructive that it killed thousands of people instantly. We remember Hiroshima. So, technological advancement is no proof of human evolution, and today’s human beings are no better than those who lived during the time of Christ. They are none better. They still have the same weaknesses and the same vices. But out of the gallon of milk churning it, a certain amount of cream does float up, and I would say that if I could lead just one person to a greater realisation, to self-realisation, the mission of my life would be accomplished. … Gururaj Ananda Yogi: Satsang UK 1976 – 08

Life, Love, and Laughter Through Non-Attachment: Discovering the Eternal Joy Within

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THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NON-ATTACHMENT AND DETACHMENT The opposite of attachment is not detachment. The opposite of attachment is non-attachment. Let me explain to you the difference between detachment and non-attachment. In detachment, you become detached from the world or your environment. That could be a form of escapism. When many people become dropouts or failures in life or cannot stand the problems of life, then they seclude themselves, they become recluses or hermits. Many of the sadhus or so-called yogis you find in India are dropouts. I have met hundreds of them. They are dropouts, so they detached themselves from the world. But the idea is to have non-attachment, where you are in the world and yet not attached to the world. You are in the world, yet not of the world. That is non-attachment. That means you partake of everything, wear clothes, live in houses, have wives and husbands and families, and live normally. And yet you can still stand apart and observe the play. For is this whole world not a stage, as Shakespeare would say? That is non-attachment, where you are watching the play of the world and sitting in the audience watching the whole world go by. Yet you are partaking of it without being attached to it. That is non-attachment. What happens with attachment is that you become so emotionally involved that you will feel all the pains and the sorrows. But if you are non-attached, although the pains and the sorrows come, you can stand apart and become the witness, and when you become the witness, the emphasis is more on the big “I” instead of the small “I.” With attachment, the small “I” is activated; with non-attachment, the big “I” is activated and becomes the witness or the observer of all that the small “I” is doing. So, the big “I,” or the authentic, actual Self of man, starts permeating the small self of man. The whole secret of life is non-attachment. It does not mean being aloof or detached. It does not mean you leave your wives and children or husbands; the whole day, you sit on some hill or Himalayan cave or sit up in the Andes. That is not what it means. I am a teacher for householders, not for the monks. The monks can carry on with their monkey business. I am a householder, a teacher for householders. JOY IS AN ETERNAL QUALITY Non-attachment is also a form of renunciation, which does not mean that you have renounced the world, but you have renounced the attachment to the world and live in a state of non-attachment where nothing can touch you. By having non-attachment, you rise above, go beyond the polarities, and go beyond the law of opposites. Because in attachment, the law of opposites functions. If you feel intensely happy today, know that you will feel intensely unhappy next week, too. Be sure to know that. Every pleasure has pain as a constituent within itself, and every pain contains within itself pleasure. In non-attachment, you do not experience pain or pleasure. You experience joy. That is something different than pleasure. You eat a big, beautiful dinner, it gives you pleasure. You go to see an excellent show, it gives you pleasure. It does not provide you with joy because pain and pleasure are inflicted upon you, and it requires support from external things while joy wells up from inside. You might go for a lovely dinner, dance and show and feel so happy. You go out with your boyfriend or husband, girlfriend or wife; a couple of hours are spent. Ah! I am happy, so lovely. Yet you come home, and just a little thing, especially after having a few glasses of champagne, just a little thing might set off a fire. You quarrel. Half an hour ago, so much pleasure, and now, just because of that lovely time, as you call it, you are having pain. Do you see how they are so associated with each other? But when you rise above pain and pleasure, there is absolute joy and bliss; then you are functioning from a different level altogether. Pain and pleasure are in the realms of the five senses: hearing, seeing, touching, smelling, and feeling, but joy comes from within. It is welling up from the Kingdom of Heaven within, from the core of one’s personality called the Heart. Joy comes from there, and that “joyousness” is what we are after. When a person is attached to any material thing, a relative, or a person, one must realise that attachment has no value whatsoever because everything is transient. All these pains and pleasures are transient; they all pass away very soon. But joy is an eternal quality; it is good through eternity. THERE IS ONLY ONE SPIRIT WHICH IS ETERNAL AND IMMORTAL AND PERMEATES EVERY ONE OF US There was a well-known rabbi who lived in a small village in Israel. One man was passing through that village and heard that this well-known rabbi lived there. So, he thought, “Let me go and visit this rabbi.” So, he went to this rabbi’s home. It was a poor, modest home, and he went inside, and the rabbi said, “Welcome, come inside, sit down,” and offered him a glass of water. Poor man, and his whole house was bare. He sat on the floor with no furniture, nothing. So, this visitor says, “Rabbi, I was just passing here, so I dropped in to see you.” And after they chatted, chatted, this fellow asked the rabbi, “Why is your house so bare?” So, the rabbi replies, “Oh, I am also just passing here.” We are all just passing here. So, while we pass here, we realise that we form attachments that we think will be eternal. I have three children. The one is married; he is twenty-five. The other one is just becoming a pharmacist; he is twenty-two and a boy of thirteen. And I can assure

Trust and Love: The Gateway to the Peace That Passeth All Understanding

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TRUST AND LOVE ARE INTERCONNECTED The main requirement for trust is self-confidence within yourself. Let us take as an example a man who might think he is sexually weak, which could be one condition why he does not trust his wife, although his wife could be a pure goddess. Therefore, self-confidence is something significant, and to create self-confidence in oneself, one must know oneself, to quote the Scriptures, “Man know thyself.” When you know yourself, what part of you do you know? Man thinks he knows himself, and he believes that he thinks, but he stinks. You think that you feel, but you are not thinking because of your little conditioned mind that, through all the various experiences you have gone through, all the impressions that have been created in your subconscious mind. When I say you think that you know yourself, in reality, you do not. Because a tiny fraction of the conscious mind is set into motion, and that tiny fraction of the conscious mind can never encapsulate or capture the totality that is required for trust, and when you do not have total trust, you distrust and you mistrust. You see how you have missed it all? To have trust is to be able to function, not only with a small section of your mind, but with the entire mind. But that is still not enough. Because a mind can play various tricks upon you. So, we come to the crux of the matter: trust is a matter of the heart. You trust with your heart, not with your mind. The mind will tell you that Jamie is such a good man. However, you can only truly appreciate and understand the goodness of Jamie if you experience it. Here, the heart and the mind must be combined for you to experience trust. As you start to experience trust, your self-confidence grows and grows. And with that very growth, like a flower from a bud, it blooms into its full beauty, and that beauty in the growing of trust is expressed through love. Because trust and love are inseparable, if you do not love a person, you cannot trust that person, and if you cannot trust a person, you cannot love the person. So, they are interconnected. IF YOU WANT TRUST, TRUST FOR THE SAKE OF TRUSTING We have covered three points. Self-confidence, which comes about through trust and trust through love, and love through trust, and trust through self-confidence. You see how they intertwine. When the mind starts doubting, which is opposite to trust, because trust and doubt are at opposite poles, in polarity. There are some methods to convert mistrust or distrust into trust. Firstly, you start using your mind and you analyse. You say, “Jamie did this, he kept his promise. He was going to see Gururaj at nine o’clock, and he came there one minute to nine. He was given some duty to do, and it was done punctually, on time.” So, the mind would rely upon those factors of the person’s history; if he has done nine things perfectly right and as instructed, then I am sure the tenth one will also be right. There is an old philosophical saying that if you have a chain of twenty links and if nineteen links of the chain are the same, then the twentieth link will also be the same. However, the mental analysis that needs to occur is determining how trustworthy a person can be, and based on their record, you will start to trust the person. That is not enough. That trust, that mental analysis to repeat, must be filled with that heart quality, which we call feeling. So, feeling is also brought into play, and when feeling is brought into play, one’s emotions naturally come into play. So, here trust would include self-confidence, love, emotions, feelings, the heart, but that is still not enough. Why is it not enough? Because of the feelings you have for the person, all the emotions still have to be filtered through the mind. The mind is so devious that most of the time, it does not express the true feelings of a person. It can distort. It acts like a filter. So, you put on green glasses and everything looks green, or if you have jaundice, everything looks yellow. So, apart from the various mechanics of the mind, the heart, and feelings, genuine trust must come from a different area. That area is the core of the human personality, which people usually call the heart. You can call it spirit, call it whatever you want to call it. These are labels. So, if you wish to have genuine trust, of course, do not analyse the person that you want to trust or the object, or the question on hand. No. You do not analyse it. You just trust for the sake of trusting. Like love for the sake of loving. You do not analyse. WHEN YOU TRUST, YOU FIND GREATER PEACE AND YOU TRANSFORM YOUR ENVIRONMENT Any one of you here can pull out a gun and assassinate me. One of our meditators in America had a dream on my last trip to America that Gururaj was going to be assassinated. For example, anyone here can pull out a gun and shoot me. But I say no, I trust that no one is going to do that to me, and if they should do so, I will say Bless you, you have taken me away from a lot of misery, sufferings not of my own but the sufferings of all of you that are so close and dear to me. I can feel every thought of yours. My only suffering is your sufferings—none else. You trust for the sake of trusting, and I will tell you what will happen as a result. Say, for example, a man is married to a woman who might not be very faithful, or the man might not be loyal.

Judge Not the Master: The Return of Enlightened Beings by Will

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THE RETURN OF ENLIGHTENED BEINGS FROM AGE TO AGE There have been many self-realized individuals in the world who merge away into Divinity, much like a drop of water dissolving into the ocean and becoming one with the sea. Then another class sits on the fence, like Buddha, Krishna, and Christ. They sit on the wall. They can merge away if they want to, or they can come back and retake birth if they want to. Their hearts are filled with kindness and compassion, which is why they keep coming back again and again. Like the Gita says, when there is a significant imbalance in the world, when evil rises, I shall be born again and again from age to age. And that is true. That is true. They are not the ones who would want to merge away. They found that consciousness, explored in its entirety, merged into it, and by will, they took birth. And their will is determined by us. We assess their will. Because as a person radiates an emanation of some force from him, likewise, a city emanates a certain force, a country emanates a certain force, the whole world emanates a certain force. And it is that force, that very emanation, that draws that Christ or Buddha back to this planet. WE NEED TO HAVE A CERTAIN CONSCIOUSNESS TO RECOGNIZE A BUDDHA OR A CHRIST There may be one man living at this time who is simultaneously inhabiting many other worlds, holding different jobs. Because once you know the entirety of consciousness. It is similar to holography, where a hologram can be broken down into its constituent parts, and the entire picture can still be reconstructed from a small piece of it. There is one transmitting station, but its transmission could reach millions of wireless sets throughout the country. The oneness is there and yet it is within each and everyone here, and not only on this planet but on many, many other planets and places of existence where the fullness is there of that. When there is a radio broadcast, a transmission, such as a symphony, you do not only hear a bit of the symphony on one radio, a bit in another, and a bit in another. No. You hear the whole symphony of five million radios. In that way, the consciousness is everywhere doing its job. But I can tell you one thing, though: Buddha or Christ should have taken down your main street; they might get arrested for vagrancy because we have got to have a certain consciousness to recognize that consciousness. Because these individuals live on two levels simultaneously, there is another paradox—human, no different than you and me. Yet, like the two birds in the tree, they live on two different levels of existence: in that vast universal level and yet at the same time in the individual level. The only difference between you and Christ is that you live at a particular level, whereas Christ lives at the universal level, which can be experienced, and I speak from experience, not from books. I only discuss the experiences that I have personally had and am having, but you can live in those two levels simultaneously. So, you are God and man. WE CANNOT JUDGE A MASTER As you know, a great many people have very stringent preconceptions of what a master ought to be and what his level ought to be, and that is the trouble. You are projecting your prejudices, your own biases, like this woman who went to this political party with her particular ideals. Those ideals come from your thought level, from your understanding, and we have no right to have a fixed ideal in our minds. Therefore, it is said in the Bible, “Judge ye not that ye be judged.” It is very accurate. How can you judge a person who lives on two levels simultaneously, when you are not living on those two levels? When you lack knowledge, how can you judge something less, with a limited mind? There is a story of a monk who was sitting around the fire with his chelas, and all of a sudden, the monk, the guru, spiritual master, pulled out a piece of burning coal and jabbed it in the arm of one of his chelas sitting there. So, everyone was aghast; they were shocked. “How can you do this?” He was the epitome of kindness and compassion. Yet, you burn your chela. So later, he had to explain. He said, “The destiny of this man, within a week, was to be burned alive, and I averted it.” So, if we see such a man jabbing his chela with a burning piece of coal, we would think, “Oh, my God. Let us not have anything to do with him.” Ramakrishna, a great sage who lived at the turn of the 19th century, if any psychiatrist or psychologist should see him today, would say he is mad, insane. One day, he was walking on the road, and he saw a dog eating food out of a bowl. Ramakrishna went to sit next to that dog and ate from the dog’s bowl with the dog. If you see that, would you say that is madness? But to him, he felt that the food and the bowl and the dog and he were but one! The same essence, the same consciousness. So, we never judge. We never project our ideals upon a master. But we can ask ourselves, “Does my master benefit me? Does my master give me a better understanding of life? Does my master gently guide me along the spiritual path and show me the way? Am I gaining anything more, my serenity, calmness, peace, am I gaining?” That is the question to ask yourself, and not to judge a master. You cannot. WE CANNOT PROJECT OUR IDEALS ON A SPIRITUAL MASTER My guru, Parvitranandaji, used to do funny things. But I knew, I mean, I

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